Dates: August 15-17, 2025
Times: 9:00am-5:30pm ET
Location: Bloomington, IN
Instructor: Heather Maritano
Contact Hours: 20 CEUs/ 3 days
Description
This 3 day workshop provides an introduction to sandtray therapy theory and practice with children and adults.
A portion of the first day is learning how to set up and maintain spaces for this work, and adapt it for one’s personal working environment and population. Participants will evaluate various spaces based on their nervous system reactions and practical considerations.
There will be clinical demonstrations of work with children and adults, with many experiential activities to secure personal learning. We will explore various elements of the sandtray process in the context of clinical practice, paying particular attention to the self of the therapist, clinical conceptualization, and the clinical relationship.
This training interweaves didactic material, group discussion, demonstrations, and experiential exercises to explore sand, symbol and self. Participants will have ample opportunity to practice and refine basic skills and explore questions in a small-group setting. Even seasoned sandtray clinicians have found that this foundation level provides new insights for their work.
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Objectives
- Identify the history and theoretical background for sandtray therapy;
- Describe differences between sandplay and sandtray play therapy;
- Identify how to create and maintain a sandtray play therapy clinical space;
- Identify differences in sandtray play therapy with children and adults;
- Utilize sand and symbols to explore depth and meaning in sandtray play therapy;
- Demonstrate beginning skills for facilitating sandtray play therapy in clinical practice;
- Discuss the significance of presence in sandtray play therapy;
- Discuss the challenges of not knowing and the risks of questions & the need to know in sandtray play therapy;
- Articulate how trauma is stored and processed through image and sensory means;
- Discuss ethical practices, competencies, & risks in sandtray play therapy
Course Details & Materials Checklist – available Aug 1
All sections must be marked as complete to receive certificate.
Inner Resources Training Institute is an approved provider for the following organizations:
Indiana Professional Licensing Board has approved this organization to provide category 1 continuing education hours for LSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and LMHCs. Provider # 98000765A
NBCC, ACEP No. 7363
Association for Play Therapy Approved Provider #07-200
Registered Sand Therapist Trainer RST-C/T
World Association of Sand Therapy Professionals
Inner Resources Training Institute follows all CE guidelines for the hours it provides and maintains full responsibility for all aspects of programming.
Programs that do not qualify for NBCC and/or APT, or any CE hours are clearly identified. To ensure that the credit hours you receive are applicable for your purposes, please contact the agencies for which you are seeking credit directly. You must attend the entire session to receive credit, no partial credit will be issued.
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